Veritas CloudPoint Administrator's Guide

To create a policy

1. On the dashboard, in the Administration widget, locate Policies, and click Manage.
   
2. On the Policies page, click New Policy.
3. Complete the New Policy page.
   

   Enter the following:

   • Policy Information

     Name and describe the policy, and enable features.

     Field	Description
     Policy Name	Enter a name for the policy. The name can contain 2 to 12 characters. The name can only contain lower case letters, numbers, and hyphens. The name should begin with a letter. Notes: In Google Cloud, a policy name cannot contain an underscore. If policy contains any on-premise array disk, then the policy name must be a 2 to 12 character string. In case of a Pure Storage array, the policy name must also not contain an underscore.
     Description (optional)	A short description to remind you about what the policy does.
     Storage level	The level at which the snapshot is taken: Disk, Host, Application, or Share (applicable to NetApp).
     Application Consistent	Click the check box to enable application-consistent snapshots. In an application consistent snapshot, CloudPoint notifies the application that it is about to take a snapshot. The application completes its transactions and writes data to memory. It is then briefly frozen and CloudPoint takes the snapshot. The application resumes activity after the snapshot is taken. The default is to create a crash-consistent snapshot. This snapshot type does not capture data in memory or pending operations. An application-consistent snapshot is recommended for database applications. A crash-consistent snapshot is acceptable for other types of assets. This option is not available with the CloudPoint Freemium license. Note: CloudPoint does not support application-consistent snapshots on ext2 file systems.
     Enable Replication	Click the check box to enable replication.

   • Retention

     Use the retention parameter to define how many copies of the asset snapshots to create and for how long you wish to keep them. You can choose to retain the snapshot copies for days, weeks, months, or years.

     After the retention period expires, CloudPoint automatically deletes all the snapshots and their replicated copies.

     Note:

     Use careful planning and consideration when using this parameter. The retention period applies to the policy-created snapshot copies as well as the replicated snapshot copies that are stored at a different location than the source. All the snapshots are completely lost and you will not have access to them after they are deleted.

     The following table shows some sample settings.

     Number	Tab		Description
     5	Copies		Retains the last five snapshots. Note: An asset may have more total snapshots than the number specified here. If an asset is associated with multiple policies, it has snapshots with each policy. Also, the snapshots you create manually do not count toward the retention total. Manual snapshots are not automatically deleted.
     7	Days		Retains all snapshots for a week.
     3	Months		Retains all snapshots for 3 months.

   • Scheduling

     Use this part of the page to determine how often the policy runs.

     Tab	Description
     Hourly	Specify the hour or minute interval at which the policy runs.
     Daily	Click the clock icon to specify the time the policy runs each day.
     Weekly	Use the clock icon and day buttons to specify the day of the week and the time the policy runs.
     Monthly	Use the clock icon and calendar to specify the time and the date each month on which the policy runs.

     The following example takes application consistent snapshots each Monday at 12:00 AM. CloudPoint retains four snapshots before it discards the oldest one.

     
4. Click Save.

   CloudPoint displays a message that the new policy is created.

5. The Policies page displays all the policies that are created.